Significantly after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent John Sudworth reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. Theyre now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering, why was there no help sent from oahu . Pearl harbor is a 20 minute flight away, right . Why are the limited resources of police on this island left alone . Where is the support for them . Why are we taking supplies on a boat instead of helicopter . We do this because we have to. An hour into the journey and the devastation along the shoreline comes into view. We can quite clearly see the town of lahaina now and you can make out is the blackened landscape above the town where the grass was burning and what happened with the Hurricane Blowing away off to the south, the pressure brought the wind over the top of the isla
Insurance to avoid a penalty, enrollment under the Affordable Care act ends at midnight tonight, and it looks like there are plenty of folks who have waited until the last day. People have been lining up at some of the popup locations where they can get the paperwork started. Thats on top of the people who have been signing up online the last couple of days. David shuster joins us. The Health Care Website received over 4 million visits over the weekend and that doesnt include a very heavy search today. By noon today the call centers designed to help people had registered more than 400,000 calls. It does appear that the program is going to be close or perhaps blow by the initial signup goals. Either way, the health care into state and federal years. Enrollment results, 9. 5 Million People that previously did not have coverage gained coverage. 45 to 48 million haas year to between 35. 5 and. 5 million today. This is 38. 5 million today. Polling by gallup, going into march the percentage
Lives shattered by g. M. Now they answer to congress. And taking out one of the most ruthless cartels in the world. Hi there. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im Thomas Drayton in new york. We are following breaking news out of chile. A powerful earthquake rocked a south american company. The 8. 2 magnitude quake hit off the north coast just before 9 00 pm local time on tuesday. Chilean Officials Say five have died and others injured. The quake caused landslides, knocked out power. 12 aftershocks have been reported, one a magnitude 6. 2. Airports in the city of iquique and others are closed at this hour, with all flights grounded. Tsunami warnings and watches have been cancelled for chile, peru and ecuador. Lucia newman is in santiago, with more on the quake. All along the coast, including the port city of iquique, which is about 150km from where i am now, people are evacuated because they dont know what is going to happen. Tsunamis are so unpredictable. The most vulnerable area is in th
Cars. Under fire Albuquerque Police departments investigation. We talk to former new mexico governor gary johnson. Border blessings Roman Catholic leaders celebrate mass at the offense separating United States and mexico. We begin with the breaking news out of chile. An 8. 2 magnitude earthquake triggered the evacuation of half a Million People. Entire towns packed up and moved into the mountains because of tsunami warnings in effect for the next six hours. The earthquake hit 6 46 local time after the navy reported tsunami activity with waves of 6 feet high. Tsunami warnings and watchers are in effect for the Pacific Coast of south america and central america. Those are live pictures we are looking at. Airports in the cities of antoforgoska, ar. Ka and akika are off and planes grounded. Nine aftershocks have been recorded greater than magnitude five. Jacob ward, science and Technology Correspondent and pat abbott, Professor Emeritus of geelongy. We have been listening to television in
Good morning to you, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. The controversial spying program that collect millions of american phone records will be limited. Thats a commitment president obama made on friday. The proposed reforms do not put an end to mass spying but provide more oversight. They assure allies that they will not monitor phone calls. Theres no guarantees that theyll be implemented. Patty culhane explains. The extent of the spying carried out by the United States, hugely controversial overseas. Beside president obamas speech only a handful of the usual protesters showed up to demand changes. The president took to the stage, promising to change little. When it comes to spying outside the u. S. Allied leaders can by assured they will not listen to the phone call. Every text, call and video chat will be stored. The u. S. President says that shouldnt bother most people in the world. The bottom line is that people around the world. Regardless